By Frank Scheck - Review NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - Yet another remake
displaying little reason for being, Fox's redo of their 1976
horror hit "The Omen" seems most clearly designed to capitalize
on its 6/6/06 release date.

The third vampire musical to try its luck on Broadway in four years drew all the familiar puns in scathing reviews Thursday that said "Lestat" was "bloody awful," "sucked of life" and the "kiss of death."

By Jonathan Cohen NEW YORK (Billboard) - "Lestat," the first musical Elton
John and longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin have written together,
will open April 13 on Broadway at the Palace Theater, with
preview performances due to begin March 11.

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles officials, still unable
to catch an alligator that stunned them by surfacing in a city
lake last month, now face a doubly vexing situation -- a second
renegade gator.

By Borys Kit LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Mary Lambert, best known
for directing the "Pet Sematary" movies, has signed on to shoot
the indie vampire Western "High Midnight." The story, by first-time scribe Denis Faye, centers on a
broken-down sheriff who is forced to team up with an obsessed
Victorian vampire hunter in order to stop an evil, undead force
from consuming a frontier town in 1892 New Mexico.

The undead have started thinking for themselves, and the living have the benefit of armored vehicles and automatic weapons in fighting them. Other than that, the zombie genre remains alive and well, and (mostly) just the way you like it, with "George A. Romero's Land of the Dead."

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